He’ll leave town when he’s good and ready…and when the pretty and proper young schoolmarm consents to be his bride.
A Bad Man’s Desire
At first glance, the lovely Easterner Anthea Bright seems woefully unsuited for her position as the new schoolmarm in Haven, Kansas. But behind that fine finishing school polish is a fiery spirit and a determination to succeed. Gabriel Jackson, however, is a different kind of challenge. The intensely passionate, devastatingly sexy man is Haven’s most disreputable citizen — and he’s put Anthea’s level head and her heart in a furious spin.
How can the prim, pretty newcomer hope to stand firm to her principles when she feels breathless whenever Gabriel’s near? And though a small voice inside tells her the “bad man’s” not nearly as bad as his reputation would suggest, does she dare surrender to this dangerous stranger who is bound and determined to make Anthea his bride?
Unlike her two sisters who followed their dreams to the altar,Kathryn Bright Goodale doesn’t want to be a bride.
What she needs is to win the Great Centennial Race now that her late husband has left her penniless. So Kate reluctantly turns to the famous adventurer Lord James Bennett for help. Once, long ago, James stole from her a lingering, forbidden, and unforgettable kiss. And now the lady wants the incorrigible rogue to stick strictly to business — and is troubled that shemay not be able to resist him if he does not.
James, too, can never forget that wild, passionate moment in Kate’s garden, and he’s certain the rigors of a far-reaching adventure will be too much for her. But the fetching young widow surprises him with her bold determination and a courage that compliments her breathtaking sensuality. Might Lord James be competing for a more elusive, yet far more valuable, prize: the hand and heart of Kathryn Bright Goodale?
Sam Duncan was too young when he marched off to war and was brutally imprisoned. He’s witnessed and experienced a lifetime of cruelty and he’s lost too much to care about anything ever again. While he was captured, his entire family died, leaving him with the only person he cares about – his cellmate, Griff. As a result, his steely nerves have made Sam one of the most famous and feared hired guns in the west. Then Griff disappears inside the gates of Hamilton’s fabulously profitable Silver Spur ranch. Sam figures that posing as a bodyguard of the Baron of Banking’s daughter, who’s come to visit, will be the simplest solution to finding his way in.Little did he expect that fighting a war would do so little to prepare him for an encounter with the very adventurous and alluring Laura.
The rugged loner Jake Sullivan has finally returned home — to find a brazen, beautiful trespasser in his bed. Emily Bright intends to stay. But has Jake been saddled with an unwanted intruder… or blessed with a bride?
When is it time to say goodbye?
For twelve years Ann McCray has not had a kiss from her husband or heard him say, “I love you.” He has been in a coma since a tragic car accident, and now Ann is approaching forty, childless in their dream house. When she took her vows of “in sickness and in health,” she never imagined this.
Tom Nash has just moved in next door with his teenaged daughter. Back in his glory days, Tom knew how to pitch a no-hitter, but he’s never been good with women. His purple-haired daughter Mer baffles him more than anyone. She needs some maternal guidance, and she’s not getting it from her self-absorbed mother.
As Ann finds herself drawn to Tom and his daughter, there may be hope for a new life with her new neighbor-if she can reconcile the dividing lines between love and loyalty.
